Yang Reform wanted to collect a little tax, and even said several tax items, but the ministers responded with silence, and there was only one meaning, that is, this tax could not be collected.

If it were as simple as collecting taxes, we wouldn't have spent so much energy to stir up all kinds of taxes, turn all kinds of taxes into cripples, and the ministers shrank their heads one by one, and we couldn't communicate with the emperor about this matter.

"Guys, can't you just say a few words?" Yang Gai continued to ask in a mocking tone, I didn't know how to get the taxes of the Ming Dynasty before, it was better, out of sight is clean, but now that I know the various taxes of the Ming Dynasty, I grit my teeth with hatred for these pillars of the Ming Dynasty, and I can't fight in anger.

A minister really couldn't stand the emperor's ridicule and persecution, so he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that since Your Majesty is short of money, why not let the hundred officials and nobles pledge to donate?" Each person donated a little, which is a lot of money, and it can be regarded as doing his best for His Majesty as a courtier. ”

"Pledges? I think that the salary of my Ming Dynasty is originally very low, and if you let everyone pledge to donate, do you still want to eat? What's more, it is impossible to donate every month when I pledge, and if I fight, I will not fight for a month! Everyone's salary is already small, and if you want everyone to pledge every month, don't you have to open a pot at home? "How could Yang reform allow such a thing as pledges to offset tax collection? Taxes are collected every year, every month, and pledged, which will only make you suffer the scolding of the bureaucratic class in the world.

The official who stood up to speak immediately shrunk his neck and retreated, this trick fooled the emperor, it was useless.

In the Wenhua Palace, the summer is scorching, but this atmosphere is as cold as turning on the central air conditioner.

Guo Yunhou, the head of the household department, thought for a long time, but still stood up, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that now the summer tax has also begun to be collected, and it will be all in August at the latest, and when the time comes, the court will have money, which can alleviate the dilemma of the court, and when the court has money, it will not let Your Majesty support the war in various places with internal funds, and now it is only a little more than a month away from August, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that as long as you insist on it for a while, insist on it for a month, this silver will be there, and there will be no need to collect taxes, let alone rely on the pledges of hundreds of officials... Guo Yunhou stood up and spoke, he is a household secretary, he has no money, the first one is going to find him, he will stand up sooner or later and say a way, think about it, there is only this way to quench your thirst, you can delay it.

Yang reformed and served, he could still do this, it would be good if the war could be paused, but unfortunately, fighting a war is never a game, and you can press a pause when you are halfway down, go out to pee and then continue fighting.

"How to use the summer tax, those places need to use the summer tax, how have they been used over the years, and the household department has no bottom? Don't have a definite number? Can you give it all to me to fight? Guo Aiqing, how much do you think you can move? In fact, the main income of the Ming Dynasty is on the autumn tax, and the summer tax is in the millions, which will not exceed five, and generally hovers in two or three, that is to say, the summer tax is actually only two or three million, and the autumn tax is about twenty million, so in fact, even if it is in August, the summer tax will not exceed one-fifth of the annual tax revenue, which is the money, There is a fixed number over the years, and it is very unrealistic to rely on this money to fight, Yang Reform is no longer the hairy young man who was easy to deceive, and naturally understands the catty, if it is really done according to what Guo Yunhou said, it will be found in August that there is not much left of the summer tax, and nothing can be done, and then the courtiers will definitely ask the emperor to look forward to the autumn tax, and then, a year will pass.

As soon as the emperor said, Guo Yunhou stopped talking, how to use the summer tax, he could think about it with his toes, and it was really all transferred to the emperor to fight, that was a big joke, in fact, the real income of the household department over the years, what could be called, and the one who entered the household department, did not exceed three million taels, and the rest, there was nothing to do with the household department at all, it was collected from the field, and it was directly consumed in the place, and he also counted on the summer tax to save his life and fight, don't think about it for 10,000 years.

The ministers found that the emperor was not easy to bluff, and they all lowered their heads even lower, and they really couldn't communicate with the emperor about this.

The atmosphere of the Wenhua Hall was dull again.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the addition of commercial tax, mining tax or customs tax, this, it is difficult to have an explanation for a while, it is better to discuss it next time in the court, at that time, there are many people, and there must be more ideas, what does Your Majesty think?" A minister came out and came up with a delay, delay, delay.

Yang Gai despised these bureaucrats very much, and could do anything for his own selfish interests. Yang Reform calculated in his heart that this atomic bomb was to be released, that is, to involve the officials, that is, to make the officials have nothing to say, and when he heard that someone was engaged in delaying tactics, he agreed, and said: "Okay, I will follow this Qing's family, and the next time the court will discuss this matter, it will be discussed as a major matter, and it will be here today." ”

Yang Gai looked at these bureaucrats with contempt, and said with hatred in his heart: Let you be arrogant now, let you eat inside and outside, tell you not to do personnel, then make you look good, and there will be times when you cry. The atomic bomb in Yang Reform's hand, once released, is so powerful that it will sweep the entire Ming Dynasty, shake all the rules in the light and in the dark, and will definitely become something that changes the direction of history, so I am talking about this now, in order to first build a nuclear protection station for myself, so as not to accidentally hurt myself when the time comes, and when the time comes, once the nuclear bomb explodes and destroys the existing rules of the Ming Dynasty, I can stand aside and watch the show, clean up the mess, and re-establish the rules, otherwise, when the nuclear bomb explodes, I will hurt myself, Then it's not good to re-establish the rules yourself.

Seeing that the emperor no longer said this, the ministers were glad that they had escaped and put it on the court to discuss, there would be more people talking to the emperor, procrastinating, if you want to collect business taxes, it is even more impossible, if the emperor is brutal, the experience of Emperor Wanli is not far away.

The monarchs and ministers had different dreams in the same bed, and each with their own thoughts, dispersed the feast.

Yang was very happy, things were developing in the direction he wanted, and no matter how smart and powerful the ministers were, they would never have thought that an atomic bomb that was about to sweep the entire Ming Dynasty would explode.

"Companion, bring the imperial doctor just now, I have something to say." Yang Gai, who had dispersed the feast, did not leave, and was still in the Wenhua Palace.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen agreed.

After a while, the imperial physician surnamed Wang arrived, and when he came in, he still kowtowed first.

"Chen Tai Hospital's envoy Wang Jiren [fictional] knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live."

"Get up." Yang reformed and commanded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" With a look of excitement, the imperial physician Wang thanked him and stood up, the people in the world who can be valued by the emperor are all developed, this time, it is his turn.

"Imperial Doctor Wang, I ask you, your Imperial Hospital has studied the equipment I gave you, what is the use, have you figured it out?" A few days before Yang reformed, he asked someone to send a batch of thermometers, alcohol lamps, glass tubes, magnifying glasses and other things to many places, and this hospital was one of them.

Since receiving the things given by the emperor, he was very happy, and immediately asked people to wrap these utensils in yellow silk, and made high offerings, and asked the doctors of the hospital to burn incense and worship every day.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister hasn't had time to ......, he hasn't had time, and he doesn't dare to use the things given by the emperor, this is a ...... of arrogance" The imperial physician pondered for a long time, and finally said these words.

"Transgression? Did I hear me right? It was the first time that Yang Reform had heard someone talk to him about this thing, and he thought it was funny, were the things he gave him just to see?

"......" Imperial Physician Wang was very afraid of the emperor.

"Didn't you burn incense for those things I gave you?" Yang Gai felt that it was really a big joke.

"Back to Your Majesty, in order to show respect for Your Majesty, the minister wrapped the things given by His Majesty in yellow silk and enshrined them in the main hall of the Imperial Hospital, but took the imperial doctors to kowtow every day...... "This imperial doctor is also an honest person, how the emperor asked, how did he answer."

"......" Yang Reform is also a waterfall sweat in his head, this joke is a little cold, he still expects the Tai Hospital to use those instruments to do some scientific research, or medical research, where he knows that his scientific instruments will enjoy such treatment, it is really beyond his expectations.

"Imperial Physician Wang, don't you think that the things I gave you are all useful? Magnifying glass, you can magnify things, you can make people's eyes see more subtle things, the thermometer is now you know, it is a kind of weighing instrument, the alcohol lamp ......, alas, forget it, I will open your eyes today...... "Yang Reform originally expected that the Tai Hospital could learn to use alcohol to disinfect and use alcohol lamps to do experiments or something, but now it seems that it will not work.

"Companion, get me some alcohol." Yang Reform turned his head and said to Wang Chengen, since the last time the blowtorch was successfully used for spirits, the refining of alcohol was handed over to the inner court who was specifically responsible for brewing, and with their professional technology, they distilled the burning knife a few more times, and they got relatively pure alcohol, so now, Yang Reform can also use alcohol.

Yang Gai got alcohol and said, "Imperial Doctor Wang, come here, I have something to do, and I need your help." Yang Reform said with a "malicious smile".

"The minister obeys the order...... "Imperial Physician Wang cautiously walked over and walked to the front of the emperor's desk.

"Imperial Physician Wang, stretch out your hand, I need your hand to be useful." Yang Gengai still said with a wicked smile.

The imperial physician listened to the emperor's words very much, and although he was puzzled for a moment, he didn't think much about it, and still stretched out his hand to the emperor.

"Very good, Imperial Physician Wang, your hand is here, no matter what happens, you can't move, understand?" Yang Gai said "with bad intentions".

The imperial physician was horrified by the emperor's smile, but he still said, "The minister obeys." "He is an obedient courtier.

Yang Gai smiled evilly, scooped a few spoonfuls of alcohol from the glass bottle, and poured it into the hand of the imperial doctor, who only felt that his palms were cold, and looked at the emperor curiously.

"Doctor, remember, don't move! If you move, you will be a bully! After speaking, Yang Gengai took out the fire fold, blew it up, and then went to order the alcohol in the hand of the imperial doctor.

That Tai Doctor soul is about to be scared away, there was a cannon brand in ancient times, and now, the emperor directly burns people!

An eerie blue flame rose in the hand of the Imperial Physician.

The physician cried out in horror, despair, and terrible: "Ah! ...... "But the emperor has already said in advance, if you move, you are bullying the king, even if the imperial doctor shouts in despair, he still does not move his hand at all, he is really a very obedient imperial doctor."

Yang Gai looked at this crying imperial doctor, and admired it in his heart, this imperial doctor was also obedient, and he screamed so badly, but he didn't move at all.

The Wenhua Hall was filled with the miserable screams of the imperial doctor. Even Wang Chengen couldn't bear to watch the emperor burn the living, grinned, and couldn't bear to turn his head away.

Yang Gai said silently in his heart, one, two, three, four, five, and then quickly covered it with a fast wet towel. The blue flame in the Imperial Doctor's hand vanished.

The imperial doctor was still yelling like a pig, but he really didn't dare to move his hand in the slightest, and a ridiculous scene was staged in the Wenhua Palace.

Yang Gai smiled: "Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor." ”

The imperial doctor felt that his hands didn't seem to have the hot feeling he imagined, so he turned around and looked at his hands, his hands were fine, nothing happened at all, the blue flame just now was like a dream.

"The minister should die, damn, guilty, guilty......" The imperial doctor knelt on the ground, and his own scream was too big.

"Hehe, get up, Imperial Doctor, look at your hands, are they burning?" Yang asked Gengai.

The imperial doctor looked at his hand, it was not broken at all, it was still cold, and said: "Your Majesty, it's really a strange thing, the minister's hand, obviously there is a fire burning, why is the minister's hand not at all?" ”

"Hehe, you get up, I'll do it again for you." Yang Gai said with a smile, playing with fire with his hands, like many people, he didn't play less when he was young, especially when he just came out of the lighter, he poured the gas of the lighter into the palm of his hand, and then lit it, and watched the flame burn in the palm of his hand, which was a special thing. Now, Yang Gaigui is the Son of Heaven, and he will not risk his own hands, so he uses other people's hands to do experiments on burning alcohol, who called this imperial doctor so obedient?

The imperial doctor didn't think much about it, got up, and put his hand in front of the emperor's desk.

Yang Gengai scooped a few spoonfuls of alcohol again and poured it into the palm of the imperial doctor's hand, and then lit it with a fire fold, this time, the imperial doctor did not scream, but widened his eyes and calmly looked at the blue flame in his palm. Wang Chengen on the side was also watching this magical scene.

Yang Gengai silently recited in his heart: one, two, three, four, five, and then quickly covered it with a wet towel. The eerie blue flame was extinguished.

"Hehe, what's the matter, Imperial Doctor, is it burning?" Yang asked Gengai.

"Back to Your Majesty, no, the minister felt that his palms were cold, what kind of fire is this! Why isn't it hot at all! "The Imperial Doctor thought it was amazing.

"Not hot? Okay, let's do it again. After Yang Reform finished speaking, he scooped up a few more spoonfuls of alcohol, still poured it into the hands of the imperial doctor, and then lit it.

Then he took out a piece of rice paper, quickly placed it on top of the blue flame, and set the rice paper on fire at once.

Yang Gengai threw the rice paper into the inkstone. Then quickly use a wet towel to extinguish the fire on the doctor's hand.

"How, is this a fake fire?" Yang Gengai asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Majesty, yes, dare to ask Your Majesty, how did this happen? Is there some kind of spell? The Imperial Doctor said affirmatively.

"Spells? Hehe, actually, I want to tell you that this thing is alcohol! It was one of those things I gave you in the hospital last time, and I thought that your hospital would study the use of these things, but I didn't expect that you would actually enshrine these things, which really disappointed me. Yang Gai said.

These things are not only available in the Tai Hospital, but also have a set in Zhang Xianyong, if not for anything else, but to improve the level of medicine, improve human understanding of nature, and prepare for overseas colonization in the future. It's just that Yang Reform didn't expect that his set of things would be offered up like a bodhisattva, which really disappointed Yang Reform.

"The minister is ashamed, the minister is ashamed of the gift to His Majesty, and he is ashamed of His Majesty." Imperial Physician Wang said ashamedly.

"Why did you study this, in fact, you should have heard it in the main hall just now, now, there are wars everywhere, there are wars, and there will inevitably be deaths and injuries, so I hope to enter the greatest possible way to save my soldiers, the lives of the soldiers are precious, so, I hope that there is a set of cheap, effective, and can be used on the battlefield treatment methods, on the battlefield, most of them are knife and arrow wounds, so many of them need to be operated, wounds cleaned, and even amputations, so I sent you those things, magnifying glasses, Help you observe more subtle things, alcohol lamp, this kind of flame is fueled by alcohol, the flame is clean, just like the flame you just saw, you can't see a trace of black smoke, not like today's lamp, a lot of smoke and dust, I read medical skills, I know that cleaning up the wound of knives and arrows will most likely burn the knife with a fire line, so I thought, if you use this kind of fire to burn the knife, the knife will be cleaner, and when you save my soldiers, you can also have a few more chances, in addition, you also felt it just now, this alcohol, I think that if I smear the prisoners with alcohol when performing debridement or amputation on my soldiers, first, it can relieve the pain of the soldiers, and second, this thing is the cleanest, and the fire that burns out is so clean, I thought, it is also clean itself, so it should be used to clean the wounds more than ordinary water pipes, so I will send these things to you...... Alas, who knows, you ......, who can relieve my worries! ”

Yang Reform looked pity.

The imperial doctor was moved to tears by the emperor's words. I have always heard that the emperor cherishes the people and loves the people, and now when I listen to the emperor's explanation, I know that it is true, for the sake of the officers and soldiers, for the soldiers, and for the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that I have broken my heart and tried everything I can.

"Your Majesty is merciful, the minister is invisible, you should not shed tears in front of your Majesty, the soldiers on the front line heard about Your Majesty's mercy, and they must be moved to tears like the ministers, and ......the ministers will go back and immediately try the use of these things according to what Your Majesty said, and find out a set of methods suitable for treatment on the battlefield that Your Majesty said, so as to realize Your Majesty's wishes." The imperial doctor was moved and cried a lot.

"Well, if only you could understand my painstaking efforts! After that, the results have been achieved, and the officers and soldiers will not forget you, and I am waiting for your good news. "Yang reform fooled a laborer to do medical research for himself, secretly promoting the development of medicine, although there is also Taoism in the rectification of this matter, however, a monopoly is obviously not competitive, Yang reform or the introduction of a competition mechanism, so that both sides feel the pressure, there will naturally be motivation.

(To be continued)